#orchestra

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

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So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

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